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Paul Miljukov and Negotiations for a Duma Ministry, 1906
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2017
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When the first Russian State Duma convened in the Winter Palace, on April 27, 1906, one of the basic questions which confronted both the new representative assembly and the bureaucracy of the Tsar was whether there would be a head-on clash between them or whether some form of mutual tolerance or even cooperation would emerge from their encounter. Because this encounter ended two months later in the dissolution of the Duma by the Tsar, too little attention has been paid to an alternative solution—the formation of a ministry supported by the Duma and approved by the Tsar. Yet, as it happened, this solution was explored in some detail by members of the bureaucracy and court and by leaders of the parties which dominated the Duma. These negotiations and their failure help to explain the basic political struggle between the bureaucracy, which was unwilling to relinquish its traditional privilege of governing in the name of the Tsar, and the Kadet party, which strove for the immediate introduction of responsibility of the executive to parliament, on the British model.
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